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Loan Solicitation or Phishing Attempt??

Date: Wed, 03/25/2009 - 17:40

Submitted by Cool_Abyss
on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 17:40

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Hello all,

I been getting calls from 866-928-5055 for the past 2 weeks now. They are really persistent in getting my attention. Of course they leave messages informing me to call them back.

I have gotten messages from a Mark and Susan, whoever they are. The messages state they are from "High Country" (in a polite voice) and to please give them a call back. That is it, I just delete them and think nothing of it :wink: Never heard of them on this site before.

I found THIS and many more exiciting things on the net about them.

Any input on who these folks are and what they are offering? I hope its not a loan for their sake :twisted: Furthermore I hope these guys are not accessing my teletrak report to offer me more PDLs. I think my contact information I entered online is now coming back to haunt me :oops:

Thanks in advance!


Tough call if its soliciting or phishing. I called the number and blocked my call and it sounds like a pdl. But if connected to ameriloan and you haven't paid ameriloan it could be their way to get your acct number.

OR maybe if you loaned with ameriloan, these guys are a sister co to ameriloan.

Darn illegal pdls! When will they learn to stop breaking the law?


lrhall41

Submitted by on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 20:33

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Also...if you've had other PDL's in the past, it COULD be your information was given to OTHER PDL's and they are trying to get your 'business.' I wouldn't return any phone calls, etc. are you getting e-mails, from them, VIA the Internet?


lrhall41

Submitted by sdchargers_63 on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 02:50

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I have gotten the same call two or three times from the same company. I too had a loan with Ameriloan and settled through the BBB. The only difference is when they called I answered and they told me that I was referred to them by one of my other lenders as a valued customer and that I have been pre-approved for a loan. I said "no thank you" I hung up but about two weeks later I got the same call. This time I was not as nice, I told them to stop calling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


lrhall41

Submitted by kfstaff24 on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 03:57

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Yeah I had those coming in for awhile last year. It seemed as soon as I was done with my PDLs and out the cycle. A stir of offers and calls flooded my phone and email. Very strange :?

I know after I received a refund from 3B Payday d/b/a 3B Financial, they sent me a loan offer the very next month :x


lrhall41

Submitted by Cool_Abyss on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 06:54

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These companies are so sneaky!!!! What about the privacy act and how they share information, they break so many laws with their nonsense and I cant for the life of me understand how they get away with it. If I phished for someone's account number and took money from their account my "tush" would be in the slammer. We need someone in our government to take ownership of this problem and stop these companies from operating in the US.


lrhall41

Submitted by kfstaff24 on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 08:25

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I fully agree. I think some ILLEGAL lenders do things that are very questionable :? If their is accurate proof that Illegal PDL companies are passing personal information like bank account numbers, etc. Then I think their is a concern there. I have read a post where a person's new bank account information was debited by an old PDL company. If that person applied for a new PDL, did that new PDL company release the new account info to the old PDL company? Just think if they are all affiliated somehow that could be possible.

On the other hand, at my job we are allowed to share and release employee information to sister agencies. Of course these other agencies are all affiliated with us and this all falls within our policies and regulations. As long as the information is safeguarded within privacy act standards.

So it might be possible that these lenders may have a similair policy allowing them to pass information. I am not an expert, just my opinionated guess :oops:

I would like to find out more on this.


lrhall41

Submitted by Cool_Abyss on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 09:01

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That is definatelty true with phising. So is requesting a person's home number, address, bank info possibly phishing when it comes to a lender? Would it be considered false pretenses if they share information with an Illegal lender you have no idea about.

They could have intent to gain my information then pass it on. Draft my new account unauthorized, which is against the law. Also read where some posters applied for a loan, never received the monies. Never heard from the lender again.

That's why I asked if it was solicitation or phishing, it seems to be a grey area there. IMO, I think it is all a little sketchy. I agree with you both, thanks :wink:


lrhall41

Submitted by Cool_Abyss on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 09:35

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